Black Thought's "Dear Hip Hop," an ode to global Hip Hop

"That gift that kept givin' us light and keeps givin' advice
Took on a life of its own and keeps livin'"

Invoking place and geography, the intimacy of inherited sounds, the fabulously fast scratch announcing the arrival of an intergalactic phenomenon, making everything from nothing that is something in the hands of urban griots creating culture, Black Thought just released "A Love Letter to Hip Hop." — Read the rest